“Words Can Entice Us, Can Compel Us, and Can Ensnare Us”

“Words can entice us, can compel us, and can ensnare us”
In light of this view consider ways in which writer’s present persuasive or seductive language. The White Devil and To His Coy Mistress both have use of seductive and persuasive language, they both have similar uses, that being to gain and accomplish. Within The White Devil Webster uses the language of seduction to show deceit and as a means of gain. Bracciano uses seductive language “nay, lower, you shall wear my jewel lower.” The “jewel” is meant to be a representative of Vittoria’s chastity, honour and body parts, where as Flamineo uses of “put it in” and “lower” is suggestion of the seductive language and the physical representative of the “jewel”. Bracciano’s language within the play is more persuasive in that he uses it to get Vittoria to have an affair with him, where as her language is more seductive and alluring as she uses it to persuade Bracciano to kill his wife and her husband. She does this through her dream, leaving it open to interpretations, however the “yew-tree” a pun on you, makes it explicit after the interpretation, that and the point that a “yew-tree” is a symbol of mourning, thus using the persuasive imagery of the dream and its outcome to gain what she wants. Alternatively within the first stanza of To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvel uses soft and flattering language to persuade the young mistress of his sincerity of his love for her, trying to persuade her to give him her virginity. He uses precious jewels and imagery as suggestive of her high class and how rare and precious she is. The image of the “thou by the Indian Ganges’ side/ shoulst rubies find; I by the tide/ of humber would complain” The persuasive language her is the image of his love lasting and how he places her above himself, with the enjambment between “tide/ humber” not only suggestive of their distance